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timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications,
content or personalization settings.
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We will communicate with you by e-mail, telephone or by posting notices on this
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untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete,
RealtyeZine.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse
any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).
You take full responsibility for determining your
current business relationship status with your eZine readers, as defined by
Texas House Bill 1282. For all readers that you do not currently have an established
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has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or
incomplete, RealtyeZine.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and
all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).
You
understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Service,
including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks;
and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting
networks or devices.
You
agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any
commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access
to the Service.
COPYRIGHT
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and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site
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and other countries. RealtyeZine.com graphics, logos, page headers, button
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its contents; any downloading or copying of eZines for the benefit of another
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duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any
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under 18, you may use RealtyeZine.com only with involvement of a parent or
guardian. RealtyeZine.com and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse
service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their
sole discretion.
TESTIMONIALS
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edit such content.
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rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of
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to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify RealtyeZine.com or its
affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply. RealtyeZine.com
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or content. RealtyeZine.com takes no responsibility and assumes no liability
for any content posted by you or any third party.
COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
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that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright
infringement, please send written correspondence to: Realty eZine Legal
Department, c/o City Pulse Communications, 5868 Westheimer Box 474, Houston, TX
77057
LINKS
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responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does
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liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be
caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods
or services available on or through any such site or resource.
MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE
RealtyeZine.com
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temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without
notice. You agree that RealtyeZine.com shall not be liable to you or to any
third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
TERMINATION
You
agree that RealtyeZine.com, in its sole discretion, may terminate your
password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the Service, and remove and
discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without
limitation, for lack of use or if RealtyeZine.com believes that you have
violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS.
RealtyeZine.com may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue
providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree
that any termination of your access to the Service under any provision of this
TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that
RealtyeZine.com may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all
related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to
such files or the Service. Further, you agree that RealtyeZine.com shall not be
liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the
Service.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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TO
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APPLICABLE LAW
By
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regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use
and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and RealtyeZine.com or
its affiliates.
DISPUTES
Any
dispute relating in any way to your visit to RealtyeZine.com or to products you
purchase through RealtyeZine.com shall be submitted to confidential arbitration
in Houston, Texas, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated
or threatened to violate RealtyeZine.com's intellectual property rights,
RealtyeZine.com may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or
federal court in the state of Texas, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction
and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted
under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The
arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any
court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration
involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class
arbitration proceedings or otherwise.
MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY
We
reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Terms of
Service at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void,
or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and
shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
OUR ADDRESS
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A
Subsidiary of City Pulse, Inc.
2100
W. Loop South, Suite 900
Houston,
TX 77027